Thursday, 30 March 2017

Defending the DPRK in Belgravia!

KFA Chair Dermot Hudson and Andy Brooks with other comrades

by New Worker correspondent

NCP
leader Andy Brooks joined other Korean solidarity activists outside the
Malaysian embassy in London’s Belgrave Square last week to demand an end to the
hostile actions of the Malaysian government against the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea (DPRK).

The
picket, called by the Korean Friendship Association (KFA), gave out leaflets
pointing out that a DPRK citizen called Kim Chol collapsed and died in Kuala
Lumpur airport on the 13th February. The Malaysian authorities
initially said that this was due to a heart attack. Subsequently the Malaysian
authorities, in violation of international law:

•Carried out an autopsy without the
permission of the DPRK and without the presence of the DPRK side;

It
is claimed that VX nerve agent was used to kill the man – but clearly it would
be impossible to use VX Nerve agent at the airport without killing scores of
other people and rendering the terminal unusable for years if not decades to
come. The two women arrested are not from the DPRK and are not even ethnic Koreans.
They had, however, visited south Korea several times in the past.

The KFA calls on Malaysia to return
the body of the dead DPRK citizen to the DPRK and ends its campaign of false
allegations, lies and slanders against the DPRK.